John Warlow

I am a versatile C# developer with experience of the full software life-cycle. I have development experience of complex distributed systems using a wealth of technical and commercial skills acquired across a wide range of demanding roles both contract and permanent over the last 18 years. I specialise in back end services writing WebAPI/Rest web services connecting to SQL databases.

Currently in contract at Next in Leicester.

Technologies

Contract Software Developer,
Next plc

August 2014 - Current

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Working as a contract software developer in the Instore Tech Refresh team working in the stock development group.
Working on Windows CE 5 rugged devices in Compact Framework 3.5.
Writing WCF web services handling requests from the hand held scanners to process stock arriving at Next stores.

Contract Software Developer Engineer in Test,
Microsoft

Working as a contract Software Developer Engineer in Test my role involves performance, scale and unit testing of the services developed by the service team, setting up environments and managing the continuous builds for testing web services hosted in Azure.

Senior Developer,
Blackbay

March 2012 - August 2013

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Work with customers and business analysts on site to obtain requirements.
Work with project managers and business analysts reviewing customer requirements.
Create and manage development tasks within TFS working with the testers and developers.
Developed software solutions for the courier industry.
Work with support to maintain existing customer solutions.
Lead a team of developers in the UK, Prague, Munich, Vietnam and New Zealand.

Senior Developer,
Blackbay Ltd

March 2012 - August 2013

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Working as part of an international team on mobile solutions for postal industries world-wide. Manage a team of developers in the UK, Prague, Munich, Vietnam and New Zealand.

Contract Server Engineer,
Microsoft

May 2011 - February 2012

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Developed LIVE Social Challenges for BAFTA award winning Kinect Sports: Season Two allowing players to challenge their off-line friends over Xbox LIVE using Xbox XDK in C++ on the 360 and C# Web Application running on IIS7 with SQL 2008 R2.

Developed Social Challenge email notification allowing players to receive email notifications when they have been challenged by a friend in Kinect Sports: Season Two running as a Windows Service in C# with SQL 2008 R2.

Contract Server Engineer,
Rare Ltd / Microsoft

May 2011 - March 2012

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Working on Kinect Sports: Season Two
Developed REST WCF Web application running on Windows Server 2008 R2 under IIS7.
Developed TSQL Stored Procedures/Data Schema for use by Kinect Sports: Season Two.
Developed Windows Service running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with ASP pages for email address verification and un-subscriptions for email notifications for Kinect Sports: Season Two.

Software Engineer,
Stirling Solutions Ltd

May 2010 - May 2011

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Developed new WPF Solution in .NET 4 in Visual Studio 2010 using Web Services running on IIS7 connecting to SQL Server 2008 for use in the Transport Industry.